[cdwg] Xyratex News Regarding Lustre - Press Release

[Christopher J. Morrone]

Hi Kevin,

As is typical of press releases, this is a little light on details.

Could you please elaborate on Xyratex's intentions for the purchased assets?

Chris

On 02/19/2013 03:10 PM, Kevin Canady wrote:
> Greetings Community!
> Today we are very excited to announce that Xyratex has purchased
> Lustre^®  and its assets from Oracle. We intend for Lustre to remain an
> open-source, community-driven file system to be promoted by our
> community organizations.  We undertook the acquisition because we
> realize its importance to the entire community and we want to help
> ensure that it will continue to deliver for all of us over the long
> term.  This is critically important to the growth and vitality of
> Lustre; it’s how it became what it is today, and it’s how it will
> deliver the most value in the future.  Several members of the Lustre
> community have endorsed these plans and voiced their support of our
> purchase, and contributed quotes which were included in our announcement
> today.
>
> Special thanks to our two community leaders Hugo Falter with EOFS and
> Norm Morse with OpenSFS for their support to date and into the future as
> we work to further the collaboration around Lustre.  Expect to hear more
> soon as we head into the 2013 Lustre User Group meeting in San Diego.
> http://www.opensfs.org/events/lug13/  It should be an exciting event!
>
> Best regards,
> Kevin
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